People despise being told the areas they're lacking and how they can improve. But, for a few tools that make winning easier, it's worth swallowing your pride. A recent post by LinkedIn on the arsenals of highly successful entrepreneurs shows what wea...

Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo's paths seem to be cosmically intersecting. Very soon, Yahoo's market valuation may eclipse HP's as the two follow what in the short term looks like opposite trajectories. HP's stock is at its lowest level in a decade, while...

When Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard in August 2010, it was a shock to the PC industry. HP's board forced Hurd out when he faced allegations of sexual harassment against employee and reality-TV star Jodie Fisher. The alleged activity was outl...

Time is a funny thing. One minute I’m standing in a crowded room fondling HP’s new 10.1-inch TouchPad tablet, the next, I’m writing its obituary, and a moment later I’m marking the rebirth of its OS as an open source platform. That’s not really how i...

Today may be the day we finally learn the fate of HP's webOS, the operating system that powers Palm mobile phones and HP's ill-fated TouchPad tablet. According to one report, HP CEO Meg Whitman has called for an all-hands meeting this morning to anno...

"We need to be in the tablet business," said HP CEO Meg Whitman in a conference call with analysts, just after she announced HP would keep its PC business rather than spinning it off. Even though the company killed off its TouchPad tablet that ran th...

Let’s hear it for Captain Obvious! HP and its new leader Meg Whitman finally figured out what we knew all along -- that ripping the PC business out of HP is akin to ripping a beating heart out of a jogger while she’s running the Boston Marathon. The ...

Hewlett-Packard will keep making PCs rather than spinning off its consumer computer division, the company announced Thursday. HP surprised the tech world in August, when then-CEO Leo Apotheker announced he was killing the company's webOS tablet, the ...

IBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO. Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both pictured) in the post on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano will remain chairman of IBM's board. Rometty, who joined IBM in ...

Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay's former CEO, Meg Whitman, will join its board of directors. The startup's founder and CEO Bo Fishback, who also announced a $14 million r...

Shares of Hewlett-Packard are taking a beating Friday as investors express skepticism that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman can right the ship. HP's stock price closed at 22.86 on Thursday, just before Whitman was appointed as the company's new CEO. Share...

In her first press conference after she took the helm of HP, new CEO Meg Whitman vowed to stay the course set by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker. She wants to continue the purchase of British software company Autonomy for the eye-popping pr...

HP made the widely anticipated move today of ousting Leo Apotheker and installing former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as its new chief executive. The news hit the wires late in the afternoon, after the close of trading. A little while later, HP employees rec...

Meg Whitman has officially been named the CEO of Hewlett Packard, following several days of speculation that Leo Apotheker would be forced out of the computing giant and possibly replaced by the former eBay CEO and California gubernatorial candidate....

Former eBay head honcho and failed gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman could well be annointed as the next CEO of troubled tech giant Hewlett-Packard after the U.S. markets close Thursday, according to a report in AllThingsD. In a sudden and unusual ...

According to a new report, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered to take over as CEO at Hewlett Packard. According to AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, Whitman is one name the HP board has been floating as a replacement for current HP CEO Leo Apot...

California's gubernatorial race is heating up, especially when it comes to televised commercials. Republican candidate Meg Whitman's campaign recently released a spot that calls Democratic nominee Jerry Brown's political career a failure. At one poin...

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